Brooks and Lynch will be given their degrees at AFI's annual commencement ceremony on June 13 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Dame Helen Mirren, Clint Eastwood and Roger Ebert are among the stars to have been honored by AFI in previous years.

Lynch has a long history with AFI given that the organization helped to fund some of the director's early work.

Legendary comedy filmmaker Brooks also has a prior connection to Lynch, having produced his Oscar-nominated film The Elephant Man.